History
History develops critical thinking, enquiry and empathy skills. It is always accepted as a valuable qualification for professional, further and higher education courses.
Key Stage 3 (Years 7, 8, 9)
Year 7
- Term 1: What is history? Introductory Unit
- Term 2: The Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest
- Term 3: Medieval Realms – Rulers and Ruled
- Term 4: Medieval Realms – The Church and the people
- Term 5: Native American people
- Term 6: The Tudors- Henry VIII and the ‘Break With Rome’
Year 8
- Term 1: Tudor monarchs
- Term 2: The Stuarts and the English Civil War
- Term 3: Slavery and the British Empire
- Term 4: Slavery and the British Empire
- Term 5: The Industrial Revolution
- Term 6: The Victorian Age – politics and society
Year 9
- Term 1: The First World War- How far did the First World war shape our world today?
- Term 2: The inter war period- Russian Revolution, Treaty of Versailles and rise of the Nazi party. Was Hitler the key reason for a Second World War breaking out?
- Term 3: The Era of the Second World war- Holocaust. How far were ordinary people responsible for the Holocaust?
- Term 4: The end of the Second World War- The development of the Cold War 1945-1961. The USSR was the main reason a Cold War broke out between East and West during the period 1945-1961.
- Term 5: The Cold Wa r- The USA are to blame for escalating the Cold War 1961-1991 - Vietnam war.
- Term 6: Start of GCSE’s.
Key Stage 4 (Years 10, 11)
Specifications can change between Year 11 and Year 10, so please double-check with your teacher.
Specification: Pearson Edexcel Level 1 / Level 2 GCSE in History (601/8092/4).
- Paper 1: Crime and Punishment in Britain c. 1000 - present and Whitechapel c. 1870 - 1900: Crime, Policing and Inner City (1¼ hour written examination, worth 30% of the GCSE).
- Paper 2: Period study and British depth study: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91, and Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 (1¾ hour written examination, worth 40% of the GCSE).
- Paper 3: Modern depth study: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39 (1 hour 20 min written examination, worth 30% of the GCSE).
Key Stage 5 (Sixth Form)
- History (GCE A-Level]
Examination board: AQA
- Unit 1F: Industrialisation and the People:
Britain, c1783–1885
2 hour 15 minute exam 40% of A-Level
- Unit 2N: Revolution and Dictatorship:
Russia, 1917–1953
2 hour 30 minute exam = 40% of A-Level
- Unit 3: Historical Enquiry
USA 1861-2008: The struggle for black equality - from Emancipation to Barack Obama Coursework [3000-3500 words] = 20% of A-Level]
Full details in Sixth Form brochure
Departmental Team
| Mr L Moss (Head of Department) |
| Miss S Edens |
| Miss N Gunning |
| Mrs L Knowles |